Kiev prohibits the use of the Russian language in cultural and entertainment venues

noThe Kiev municipality, citing the Ukrainian independent newspaper Euromaidan, reported that at a meeting on July 13, the municipality’s deputies adopted a resolution banning public use of entertainment products in Russian.

The decision imposes a freeze on the public display of “cultural products” in Russian, including music, performances, concerts, books, artwork, audiovisual works, handicrafts, and cultural and educational services.

“It is necessary to protect the Ukrainian information space from the mixed influences of the aggressor state, which is trying to destroy the Ukrainian national identity, its culture, traditions, customs and historical memory. Russia has no place in the heart of our capital,” said Vadym Vasilchuk, head of the Standing Committee on Education, Science, Youth and Sports, citing the same publication.

Vasilchuk added that the endowment also applies to material and spiritual art objects that have artistic, historical, ethnographic and scientific significance and must be stored, reproduced and protected in accordance with Ukrainian law.

On the same day, the Kyiv City Council approved a decision to dismantle or transfer 69 monuments, memorials, and decorative elements associated with the former Soviet Union or Russia.

Already in November last year, the Kiev Chamber completely excluded the teaching of the Russian language as part of the curricula of municipal institutions in preschool and general secondary education.

Kiev has been one of the cities most affected by Russian air strikes since the military invasion of Moscow’s forces in Ukraine on February 24 of last year, and it was widely condemned by the international community, and Russian President Vladimir Putin justified it as necessary. “De-regime” and disarmament of the Ukrainian regime for the sake of Russia’s security.

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